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How To Use contemn In A Sentence

• And here's Laurence Binyon's poem in full, and as the Tinker reminded me over our coffee and silence this morning it is "contemn" not "condemn". At the eleventh Hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month
• Who is more contemned than he who clings stubbornly to old moral insights?
• Indeed, in one particular 'sutra' the Buddha contemns such a belief as deleterious to the development of man's spiritual understanding. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
• And here he must make a speech for himself and his wife, praising their destiny, their marriage, their son, their daughter-inlaw, their grandchildren, their manifold causes of gratitude: surely the most innocent speech, the old, sharp contemner of his innocence now watching him with eyes of admiration. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
• The brutally healthy boy contemns the female sex because he sees it incapable of his own athletic sports, but Godwin was one of those upon whose awaking intellect is forced a perception of the brain-defect so general in women when they are taught few of life's graces and none of its serious concerns, -- their paltry prepossessions, their vulgar sequaciousness, their invincible ignorance, their absorption in a petty self. Born in Exile
• He was superior to all those passions and affections which attend vulgar minds, and was guilty of no other ambition than of knowledge, and to be reputed a lover of all good men; and that made him too much a contemner of those arts, which must be indulged in the transactions of human affairs .... The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
• If Caleb could have concentrated all the lightnings of aristocracy in his eye, to have struck dead this contemner of allegiance and privilege, he would have launched them at his head, without respect to the consequences. The Bride of Lammermoor
• With the party and judge at loggerheads over, say, the availability of funds, it is often the contemnor who loses, forced to remain behind bars at the mercy of a skeptical judge. No Charge: In Civil-Contempt Cases, Jail Time Can Stretch On for Years
• I then tooke one of them, and thrust him into the smoke, and willed one of my company to tread out the fire, and to spurne it into the sea, which was done to shew them that we did contemne their sorcery. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.
• [34] See Matthiæ, who explains it: "_me et supplicem_, qui mortem deprecetur, _et fortem_, qui mortem contemnat, _dicere licet_. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.